Is there an MMO out there that you spent months looking forward to, only to be completely and utterly disappointed in the final product?You read up on everything, you learned the lore, you knew what the classes and races were inside and out, hell... you could probably be hired by the company you were so devoted. But in the end, it was all a waste of time, and money. For me, without a doubt, it was Age of Conan. I remember hearing about the game well in advance. I had done my research and looked up absolutely everything about it. I built an entirely new computer to be able to play the game. The combat system sounded fantastic, and the setting was amazing. I still get nostalgic when I hear some of the soundtrack from the early part of the game.Tortage was amazing. I played through it slowly to enjoy every part of it. I figured, "finally, found that perfect MMO to hold me for the next few years."Then I left Tortage. Those of you who've played it, you know the rest. So, what is your 'disaster' MMO?
I was so stoked for a Morrowind + Ultima Online hybrid, looked at screenshot after screenshot and being amazed by the melee-based PvP, created a char...got PvP ganked within my first hour. Multiple times.
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Although it won't really count, DiabloIII. I was super psyched to play this game and grind out smashing monsters. Instead the Monsters smashed me and the loot never got better.
Second place would be GW2. I played the first and liked it but I expected more from GW2. Eventually about 2 or 3 months down the line I got super bored and stopped logging in.
After that I just do not get excited or hyped about any MMO. When it releases I decide to buy / not buy. Getting all pumped up and anxiously awaiting release day is a thing of the past for me.
The original Horizons development team had an amazing plan. Then they were scrapped and a new development team released one of the biggest piles of crap I had ever seen.
I'm a bit of a Warhammer fan. I've played the fantasy roleplay game with a bunch of friends, had a campaign going for over a year on that, and still play Warhammer Fantasy Battle with a large army of Wood Elves, so Warhammer the MMO sounded like it could be awesome. Instead, it was absolutely awful. I really liked what the original developers were doing with it, but when it switched hands to Mythic well.. that was the end.
I always found Warhammer to be an interesting case of "failure" (and nobody can't argue it's not one, since it's shut down now) because in the MMORPG world, WoW (yes, World of Warcraft) is a much better "Warhammer" inspired game than the franchise's official game developed later, with theoretically better technology and graphics, by Mythic.
I've always believed this was because Mythic couldn't really decide what sort of game to build. I was hoping they would take DAOC and improve on it's shortcomings (which I'll concede there are many)
Instead it seemed to me they were always overlooking their shoulders and trying to incorporate WOW-type designs, without really properly understanding what Blizzard did to make t all mesh together so well.
So that's why I felt is was a weird WOW-DAOC compromise that really didn't satisfy many in the end.
Throw in all the production issues caused by being rushed out early and it resulted in a game I didn't care to play. (and apparently many others)
Really was the last game I got hyped for, have taken all new releases with a grain of salt, realizing the types of games I would like to play really aren't being made any more. (for valid reasons of course)
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I dont have a big desapointment in the mmos, anyway neverwinter become my worst game hyped, i expected a good game in neverwinter and its extremely boring.
My current biggest hype is archeage, 10/10, i think its can turn into biggest disappointment in my mmoplayer life.
There have been so many disappointments it's hard really to nail them all down. GW2 for sure, I didn't get hyped much but I lasted maybe a week or 2 before I just got tired of the entire game. Another perspective on easy lvl's, boring world and no real feel of any type of customization.
AC2, I was really looking forward to this game, loved the original, literaly got to play the beta and never touched it again.
Rift I thought was gonna be the wow killer, thought it was so much more a sandbox then what it actually was. This one did last longer, I think I played it for about a month, after that was just to boring and a return to the same with like 1 different feature that I hadn't seen before, not enough to keep me playing.
After yesterdays post on patch 1.0 I think I can pretty much add archage to the list as well. Thought it was going to be the next great big sandbox and from what people are saying the patch turned it into another themepark. (Dev's take gun, Point at target, Flip gun around, Shoot themselves in the balls, GG)
I'm actually playing AoC right now out of boredum, so I guess I will see if the same problems are still there that everyone has been talking about.
The biggest disappointment in my MMO experience was a slow de-evolution of Anarchy Online. It was an awesome game for many years. But somewhere along the lines, FunCom began to milk AO's loyal player base and giving nothing back. I watched the best MMO I ever played become one of the worst within the course of a few years.
Another disappointment was Rift's Storm Legion Expansion. I had high hopes for that one.
And then of course the announcement that Dominus was canceled just as it was entering Beta.
Originally posted by Skooma2 I have two. GW2 (a complete antithesis of what I was expecting.) And, The Chronicles of Spellborn. It shut its doors so fast I did not have a chance to use the free month I won on this site! A true disaster.
GW2 and The Chronicles of Spellborn are also at the top of my list.
To this day I still can't put my finger on my dislike of GW2. It's like they had subliminal messages telling me to hate the game. I guess something was just... missing.
I was even more hyped for TCOS though, spent months on the official site milling about, planning characters, chatting on the forum, etc. I was pretty devastated when the game wasn't what I wanted. This was my turning point in my MMO career where I learned nothing good comes from hype.
At the time it released, I was a bit busy with RL commitments and whatnot, but I continued to hear good things by word of mouth, so when I finally got free access to the game some time later I couldn't wait to get my feet wet.
Then I found out via shouts in one of the noobie zones that gear > skill for PvP, and that there was no realm v realm, or organized PvP whatsoever. I don't think I lasted an hour to be honest.
I can honestly say that since that day I have done my due diligence when researching a new title, and have seldom been disappointed.
The above is my personal opinion. Anyone displaying a view contrary to my opinion is obviously WRONG and should STHU. (neener neener)
I'm am quite surprised there isn't more mention of AC2. That was quite the let down way back then. Maybe it's just been lost in the crowd of disappointments. Or I really am getting old.
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I was WAY onboard the hype train on that one. THen it came out and they had copied ENTIRE SKILL TREES from wow. I'm surprised that's even legal, but apparently it was, because they did it. The game was flat, boring, and aside from having a great launch, it failed in pretty much every aspect.
Pretty much a tie between WAR and SWTOR. I had been really, really looking forward to playing a magus in WAR and was bitterly disappointed in what the class turned out to be. And they never really fixed it either. In SWTOR, I was just really disappointed in the static worlds and fairly boring levelling process. I actually preordered the collector's edition of SWTOR and ended up only playing it for the first free month. I never even got to max level because it got too boring.
Guild Wars 2. I played GW for a while and liked it a lot, but could see room for improvement, which is what I thought would happen with GW2. Felt like I was waiting excitedly for years for release and then when it came ... well, it didn't take long for my excitement to fade. I can't say why, really, lots of little things, but somehow it didn't hold my interest for long.
While GW2 was definitely not what I had expected, my biggest "omg whaaaa?" mmo was Age of Conan.
Seriously super hyped during beta playing through Tortage. But the let down was so severe after that, that I simply have never gone back to see if they improved anything. I'm scarred for life.
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WarhammerWhat happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
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There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
Although it won't really count, DiabloIII. I was super psyched to play this game and grind out smashing monsters. Instead the Monsters smashed me and the loot never got better.
Second place would be GW2. I played the first and liked it but I expected more from GW2. Eventually about 2 or 3 months down the line I got super bored and stopped logging in.
EQ Next.
The more the dev's respond to the polls, the less EQ it is and the more WoW it becomes.
Warhammer online.
After that I just do not get excited or hyped about any MMO. When it releases I decide to buy / not buy. Getting all pumped up and anxiously awaiting release day is a thing of the past for me.
Horizons.
There wasn't even a close second.
The original Horizons development team had an amazing plan. Then they were scrapped and a new development team released one of the biggest piles of crap I had ever seen.
I've always believed this was because Mythic couldn't really decide what sort of game to build. I was hoping they would take DAOC and improve on it's shortcomings (which I'll concede there are many)
Instead it seemed to me they were always overlooking their shoulders and trying to incorporate WOW-type designs, without really properly understanding what Blizzard did to make t all mesh together so well.
So that's why I felt is was a weird WOW-DAOC compromise that really didn't satisfy many in the end.
Throw in all the production issues caused by being rushed out early and it resulted in a game I didn't care to play. (and apparently many others)
Really was the last game I got hyped for, have taken all new releases with a grain of salt, realizing the types of games I would like to play really aren't being made any more. (for valid reasons of course)
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Middle Earth Online.
LotRO deserves to have the same harsh reputation that the SWG NGE did.
But instead we have people praising it for dumbing ti down and turning it into a WoW clone, simply because they did it during beta.
I dont have a big desapointment in the mmos, anyway neverwinter become my worst game hyped, i expected a good game in neverwinter and its extremely boring.
My current biggest hype is archeage, 10/10, i think its can turn into biggest disappointment in my mmoplayer life.
There have been so many disappointments it's hard really to nail them all down. GW2 for sure, I didn't get hyped much but I lasted maybe a week or 2 before I just got tired of the entire game. Another perspective on easy lvl's, boring world and no real feel of any type of customization.
AC2, I was really looking forward to this game, loved the original, literaly got to play the beta and never touched it again.
Rift I thought was gonna be the wow killer, thought it was so much more a sandbox then what it actually was. This one did last longer, I think I played it for about a month, after that was just to boring and a return to the same with like 1 different feature that I hadn't seen before, not enough to keep me playing.
After yesterdays post on patch 1.0 I think I can pretty much add archage to the list as well. Thought it was going to be the next great big sandbox and from what people are saying the patch turned it into another themepark. (Dev's take gun, Point at target, Flip gun around, Shoot themselves in the balls, GG)
I'm actually playing AoC right now out of boredum, so I guess I will see if the same problems are still there that everyone has been talking about.
The biggest disappointment in my MMO experience was a slow de-evolution of Anarchy Online. It was an awesome game for many years. But somewhere along the lines, FunCom began to milk AO's loyal player base and giving nothing back. I watched the best MMO I ever played become one of the worst within the course of a few years.
Another disappointment was Rift's Storm Legion Expansion. I had high hopes for that one.
And then of course the announcement that Dominus was canceled just as it was entering Beta.
FFXIV 1.0
Seconded.
GW2 and The Chronicles of Spellborn are also at the top of my list.
To this day I still can't put my finger on my dislike of GW2. It's like they had subliminal messages telling me to hate the game. I guess something was just... missing.
I was even more hyped for TCOS though, spent months on the official site milling about, planning characters, chatting on the forum, etc. I was pretty devastated when the game wasn't what I wanted. This was my turning point in my MMO career where I learned nothing good comes from hype.
World of Warcraft.
At the time it released, I was a bit busy with RL commitments and whatnot, but I continued to hear good things by word of mouth, so when I finally got free access to the game some time later I couldn't wait to get my feet wet.
Then I found out via shouts in one of the noobie zones that gear > skill for PvP, and that there was no realm v realm, or organized PvP whatsoever. I don't think I lasted an hour to be honest.
I can honestly say that since that day I have done my due diligence when researching a new title, and have seldom been disappointed.
The above is my personal opinion. Anyone displaying a view contrary to my opinion is obviously WRONG and should STHU. (neener neener)
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Sheep or Shepard- Make up your own damn mind.
It is true, the older you get, the less patience you have for those who watch a Youtube video and from that believe they know it all.
Rift......
I was WAY onboard the hype train on that one. THen it came out and they had copied ENTIRE SKILL TREES from wow. I'm surprised that's even legal, but apparently it was, because they did it. The game was flat, boring, and aside from having a great launch, it failed in pretty much every aspect.
Guild Wars 2. I played GW for a while and liked it a lot, but could see room for improvement, which is what I thought would happen with GW2. Felt like I was waiting excitedly for years for release and then when it came ... well, it didn't take long for my excitement to fade. I can't say why, really, lots of little things, but somehow it didn't hold my interest for long.
While GW2 was definitely not what I had expected, my biggest "omg whaaaa?" mmo was Age of Conan.
Seriously super hyped during beta playing through Tortage. But the let down was so severe after that, that I simply have never gone back to see if they improved anything. I'm scarred for life.
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